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Douglas Goldstein
Douglas Goldstein is a thought leader, subject matter expert, and reporter delivering insights through his reporting on the application of emerging technology in healthcare and life sciences. He delivers insights on positive health transformation through innovation, collaboration, open solutions and leadership.
DreamFactory Connects Any Mobile App To MongoDB In Minutes
The DreamFactory Services Platform, the industry's most efficient way to add backend services to any mobile app, now brings big data functionality to mobile devices via DreamFactory's comprehensive REST API. [...] Read More »
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EHI Live UK Conference Hosts State–of-the-Art Open Source Health IT Solutions
EHI live, now in its 8th year, is the UK's leading exhibition for digital health, hospital information and healthcare innovation. The event attracts visitors and delegates from around the UK and beyond who are keen to learn from industry leaders and examine new technologies. The EHI Live exhibition gives visitors the chance to see the best that NHS IT suppliers have to offer. EHI Live will take place in Birmingham, UK, Nov 3-4, in Hall 1 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham. The event will host more than 250 exhibitors showcasing the latest advances in IT healthcare solutions. It will also feature free-to-attend conferences that will address the major healthcare IT industry issues such...[including] the annual HANDI Health Apps conference which features its own specialist app zone, a feature dedicated to the use of open source technology.
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EHRs And Health IT Projects: Are They Battering Hospitals' Financial Profiles?
This past November, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded the credit rating of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., from "AA-" to "A+". Read More »
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Enabling The Internet Of Things: Q&A With Libelium CEO Alicia Asin
As part of a busy September for ITProPortal, we'll be attending GigaOm's Structure:Europe cloud conference from the 18th to 19th. We caught up with one of the event's headline speakers ahead of the London show - Alicia Asin, CEO and Co-founder of Spain's Libelium. Read More »
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Ethics And Risk In Open Development
Ethics around ‘opt in’ and ‘opt out’ when working with people in communities with fewer resources, lower connectivity, and/or less of an understanding about privacy and data are tricky. Yet project implementers have a responsibility to work to the best of their ability to ensure that participants understand what will happen with their data in general, and what might happen if it is shared openly...
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eTRIKS 'open source' EU project for sharing vital disease information
Developing a software system that enables pharmaceutical companies, governments, academia and hospitals to share information to advance our understanding of diseases is the focus of a major European Union funded project, which is led by researchers from Imperial College London. Read More »
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Evolving Patient Rights In The Research And Delivery Of Health Care
...As the idea reached the proscenium this month at the Health Datapalooza, a conference founded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and now attracting more than 2,000 people, patient empowerment marks its entry into the mainstream...
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Ex-Vertica CEO: Hadoop Is Pulling The Rug From Under The Database Industry
Venture capitalist Chris Lynch has disrupted the database industry before as CEO of Vertica Systems, but now he’s watching Hadoop take it to the next level. Here are his thoughts on the challenges legacy vendors face and who’s positioned to ride the big data wave. Read More »
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Experience Design In Health Care: A New Imperative
Patient engagement is a potent therapeutic, but how is engagement related to a core tenet of healthcare’s Triple Aim: Patient experience? For that, let’s take a quick look at user experience (UX) design in software. Read More »
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Explainer: What Is The Open Movement?
You’ll have read on this site, and perhaps others, about the push towards “open access” for journal articles. But what is open access, and how does it fit into the wider “open movement”? Read More »
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Facebook Is Expanding The Way It Tracks You And Your Data
The social giant is digging into information from your smartphone and tracking the other websites you visit.
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Facebook, Intel, And AMD Bring More Resources To Open Compute Project
Facebook, Intel, and AMD are just a few of the Silicon Valley heavyweights bringing more to the open hardware table for the Open Compute Project. Read More »
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FDA Seeks Data Mining Tool to Track Adverse Drug Reactions
The Food and Drug Administration is in the market for a data mining tool that will gather information on adverse reactions to vaccines and other drugs, according to solicitation documents posted Monday. Read More »
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FDA Wants To Leverage Electronic Medical Records To Probe For Adverse Events
Keeping track of adverse events is a tricky task, even for regulators. Even when a drug has undergone a rigorous premarket assessment process, some risks may not become evident until a product is used by millions. And for other drugs, a particularly rare but serious side effect may take months, if not years, to be identified. Read More »
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